Seth Godin is the author of several books about “marketing, the spread of ideas and managing both customers and employees with respect. consider, at least for a moment, a radical idea: A slide every 12 seconds. That’s at least four distinct ideas, but more often, each of those ideas has three or four sub ideas to it.

This is fun. Haiku Deck took my 2007 blog post "7 ways to practice public speaking at work" and freshened it up into an image-based format. (I don't use "elevator pitch" any more. will have to change that in the blog post!) This is pretty much what my PowerPoint presentations look like. Nice job, Haiku Deck! Fun Stuff Resources PowerPoint

While I’m big into fitness and staying healthy, I’m also a big fan of eating – unhealthy eating to be exact. One of my favorite foods is pizza. I had it as two of my meals yesterday, and I’m not kidding. With pizza (or chinese food, ice cream, or whatever your food vice may be) the first few bites are delicious.
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Now, for our ninth challenge: Make your ideas sticky. Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the book, " Made to Stick ," created an acronym for their six principles of "sticky" ideas: Simple Unexpected Concrete Credible Emotional Stories = SUCCESs. In short, a sticky idea is an idea that your audience remembers. What will it be?
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Allow me to start with a few words from Gabriele Rico, the author of the critically acclaimed Writing The Natural Way : “What the writer often lacks is not ideas but a means of getting in touch with them.”. Developing ideas is essential if you are to develop your freelance writing business. Did my article idea light bulb burn brightly?
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Yet again it’s that darned team meeting, and yet again, as the person chairing it, you’ve got no idea what to talk about. by Peter Watts. What to talk about at the weekly team meeting? It’s a seventh-day conundrum. Yet again it’s Monday morning. ” is all about. Doing things differently. That’s sanity.
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The conclusion: it doesn't matter how good the idea, it matters what the "buyer" thinks of you as a person in the first few seconds of your pitch. have just read "How to Pitch a Brilliant idea" by Kimberly Elsbach in the Harvard Business Review. In these environments only 1-3% of ideas make it beyond the initial pitch. Arrogant.
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